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Full change history for the 4.7 branch:
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V8 blog post about what is new on V8 4.7:
http://v8project.blogspot.de/2015/10/v8-release-47.html
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4106
Reviewed-By: bnoordhuis - Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
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# ECMAScript 402
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V8 optionally implements the [ECMAScript 402](http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-402/1.0/) API. The API is enabled by default, but can be turned off at compile time.
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## Prerequisites
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The i18n implementation adds a dependency on ICU. If you run
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make dependencies
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```
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a suitable version of ICU is checked out into `third_party/icu`.
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### Alternative ICU checkout
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You can check out the ICU sources at a different location and define the gyp variable `icu_gyp_path` to point at the `icu.gyp` file.
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### System ICU
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Last but not least, you can compile V8 against a version of ICU installed in your system. To do so, specify the gyp variable `use_system_icu=1`. If you also have `want_separate_host_toolset` enabled, the bundled ICU will still be compiled to generate the V8 snapshot. The system ICU will only be used for the target architecture.
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## Embedding V8
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If you embed V8 in your application, but your application itself doesn't use ICU, you will need to initialize ICU before calling into V8 by executing:
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```
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v8::V8::InitializeICU();
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```
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It is safe to invoke this method if ICU was not compiled in, then it does nothing.
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## Compiling without i18n support
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To build V8 without i18n support use
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make i18nsupport=off native
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